Minecraft’s Eyeblossoms Should Be a Turning Point for the Game’s Flowers

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Minecraft's Eyeblossoms Should Be a Turning Point for the Game's Flowers



Across the various biomes and expansive, blocky landscapes of Minecraft, several different types of plants can be found. From common oak trees and weeds to relatively elusive sweet berry bushes and melons, vegetation of all kinds can be used to benefit players with building materials, food, decor, and more. However, flowers are one type of plant that has few uses. While flowers could be used to create dyes and attract bees for honey farms, many players simply use flowers as decor or outright ignore them. In spite of these uses, one new flower may be a turning point for the blossoming plants in Minecraft: the eyeblossom.

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The Pale Garden’s Eyeblossoms Explained

In late 2024, Mojang announced the addition of a new biome called the Pale Garden, first revealed during Minecraft LIVE 2024. This biome is a dense forest filled with dark gray pale oak trees, leaves, and overgrown hanging moss. It’s a desolate place where no animal mobs— only monsters—spawn, including the forest’s tree-like guardians, the Creaking, which can only attack players when they’re not looking at the mob and will remain frozen in place otherwise. While many new blocks and objects can be found in this biome, such as creaking hearts and resin clumps, one of the more interesting features of this biome is the eyeblossom flower.

Found exclusively growing in the Pale Garden, eyeblossoms are small light and dark gray flowers that can be easily camouflaged among the pale oak trees and hanging moss. During the day, eyeblossoms may appear to be just gray flowers but, at night, the eyeblossom opens up in an “x” shape, revealing a bright orange core. Mojang specially designed the eyeblossom to mimic the orange eyes of the Creaking to keep players on edge. The eyeblossom can additionally make slight wispy sounds whenever it’s placed on moss blocks. Eyeblossoms will also react to other nearby eyeblossoms, so if one opens up, the rest will follow suit. It can also be used to create orange and gray dyes, poison bees, and in suspicious stew recipes.

A New Minecraft Blooming Flower Update

There are currently 20 different kinds of flowers able to be picked and planted in Minecraft, including:

  • Alliums
  • Azure Bluets
  • Blue Orchids
  • Cornflowers
  • Dandelions
  • Eyeblossoms
  • Lilacs
  • Lilies of the Valley
  • Orange Tulips
  • Oxeye Daisies
  • Peonies
  • Pink Tulips
  • Pitcher Plants
  • Poppies
  • Red Tulips
  • Rose Bushes
  • Sunflowers
  • Torchflowers
  • White Tulips
  • Wither Roses

Based on the eyeblossoms’ versatile uses and abilities, Mojang should strive to introduce more flowers with similar features or update older flowers with new abilities. Two specific plants need an eyeblossom update especially: torchflower seeds and pitcher plants. These two plants are some of the rarest and hardest to acquire in Minecraft as they can only be found by Sniffers, whose eggs can only be found in suspicious sand from warm ocean ruins. Once Sniffers are hatched and raised to adulthood, they can sniff out torchflower seeds and pitcher pods which can be grown into torchflowers and pitcher plants. However, both the torchflower and pitcher plants have little use despite their rarity.

Pitcher plants can be used to create cyan dye, increase the chances of beehives growing trees with bee nests, and serve as interesting decor with a bit of an optical illusion. Torchflowers can be used to create orange dye, suspicious stew that generates a five-second-long night vision effect, and to breed Sniffers. Many players were disappointed over the lack of features connected to the torchflower and pitcher plants given how difficult they are to acquire. Mojang could rectify this issue by giving the two plants more unique abilities, such as the pitcher plant being able to collect rainwater and serve as a natural bucket and the torchflower being able to light up a small area, serving as a natural torch.

Potential New Flowers Added to Minecraft

Mojang could additionally add new flowering plants to Minecraft that have similar unique abilities to the eyeblossoms. One flowering plant that could stand out among other dormant flowers is the venus flytrap. While the venus flytrap is famous for its bug-trapping jaw, the venus flytrap does produce small white flowers and is naturally found in pine savannas in North and South Carolina. Based on this, Mojang could add them to old growth pine taiga or dark forest biomes and have the flytraps act as stationary obstacles that can try to bite mobs if they get too close. Unique flowering plants such as the eyeblossom or the venus flytrap could help make exploring Minecraft’s varied biomes all the more intriguing.

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